Mpasturavacche is the dialectal name in Apuglia, Italy, of the common four-lined snake, which was believed to suckle a cow’s milk while entwined around its legs. The artwork Mpasturavacche. The milk-suckling snake is a one-to-one Art and Science performance that lets participants explore the perceptive abilities of snakes through wearable technologies. By disclosing the instincts and impulses of the lizard brain in the human animal, the artwork makes sense of and alleviates humans’ estrangement from nature.
During the performance, the artist/performer and the participant/co-performer are linked by an “umbilical cord” that acts as a communication channel between the two. The participant receives a VR headset with thermal vision, an Arduino board and a highly sensitive voice sensor mounted close to the mouth. The device is connected to the artist, where a wearable technology system ‒ made of micro motors mounted on a piece of isothermal textile ‒ pulses in time with the visitor’s breath. These interfaces mimic the sensory properties of snakes, such as thermal vision and the responsiveness of the snake’s skin to vibrations.
The performance explores the ancestral communication systems of reptiles (snakes) and their impact on human perception and behaviour. The intimate setting of the performance awakens and challenges the sensory nature of the communication and signification in the human [and more-than-human] animal. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba, 2020/21
Be-coming Tree is collection of four videos documenting the seasonal durational live-streamed performative acts by Jatun Risba in Panovec forest in Nova Gorica, Slovenia during the pandemic year 2020/21. The artwork enacts an encounter between the stream...
Production: Jatun Risba & Cultural Centre Záhrada (Banská Bystrica, Slovakia), 2020
The video 'Be-coming Cow' was realized during an art residency of Jatun Risba at the cultural centre Záhrada (“Garden”) in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia in the end of Summer 2020. The field research in form of a 3-days cohabitation p...
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A year of desires ...for a new Beginning ...for changing the Course of ...desires ...to end desires ...DROP-OFF Drop-off is a work that reclaims the beauty and vitality of life in its darkest places. (Source: author)
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2020
A still dance in the comfort of nonconceptualityis putting trust in the hands of my sweetie.Turkish delight, honey, greed ...You, Beloved spider, are swallowing downknots of sugar in abandonment.An unruly tongue teases suspicion.Can you taste the bitterne...
Production: Jatun Risba & STEAM Atelier, 2019/2020
A recording of the lecture by the artist Jatun Risba at the Interdisciplinary Conference Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science in November 2020 at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (Angewandte). The audio recording of the lectu...
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Getting Gold is a vanitas video that questions the impact of value systems on ideas of authorship and art-making. The video performance between Jatun Risba, Franco G. Livera and Daniele Semeraro is a meditation on the fugacity of existence in all its form...
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
Down-going was taken during a collaborative art intervention at an operating hospital in S Italy in summer 2019. The produced photos and video stage a playful act of medical self-determination and resilience. By taking control over the use of medical spac...
Production: Jatun Risba & Franco G. Livera, 2019
A body wrapped in plastic … to retain moisture and preserve freshness. The plastic foil is perforated by medical tools. A body transformed into a Christmas tree decorated with surgical instruments. What does this piece of body celebrate? What has b...